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Typically when a new fishing world record is set it breaks the previous record by a few ounces, maybe a pound or two. But a massive cobia caught in Western Australia is set to break the previous IGFA fishing world record for the cobia species by a whopping 40 pounds!

Angler Koby Duncan was fishing off Rottnest Island which sits just offshore from Perth when he hooked up with the fish of a lifetime. The previous IGFA fishing world record for cobia sits at 135 lb 9 oz (61.5 kg). Cobia are a pelagic species of fish and can be caught all over the globe but the previously world record was coincidentally also caught in Western Australia way back in 1985.

Flash forward 40 years and a new fishing world record has raised the bar by 40 pounds. Jazz fishing charters crewman Harley Jarosz shared details of Koby Duncan’s record-setting cobia on social media which was weighed at the Perth Game Fishing Club on their certified scale where it tipped the scales at 79.6 KG or 175.49 pounds, an absolute beast of a fish.

A 50-pound cobia puts up an incredible fight. I cannot even wrap my brain around what landing a 175+ pound cobia would be like.

It was February 8 on all-day offshore charter fishing trip for 10 men off Southwest Australia to celebrate the 21^st birthday of local angler Lucas Tapper.

“My friend Callum Tapper set up a day of charter fishing on my boat for his son’s birthday party with a bunch of his young mates,” Capt. Drew Clowes tells Outdoor Life. “We ran my 54-foot boat ‘Jazz Four’ out of the town of Fremantle [near the city of Perth, in southwest Australia] early that morning trying for tuna. But the fish weren’t cooperating, so we then headed to a reef in 100 feet of water about 14 miles offshore to bottom fish.”

About 9 a.m. one of the men aboard cast a heavy jig threaded onto a 7-inch soft-plastic jerk shad. With a spinning rod he slowly worked it along bottom, and soon hooked a deep, stubborn fish that refused to come topside.

“Koby Duncan is a strong and tough lad, and he was putting everything he could on that fish and it wouldn’t leave bottom,” says 49-year old Clowes, who’s been running charter trips for 12 years. “That fish made eight or nine deep runs and wouldn’t come up. Koby is a rugged commercial octopus fisherman, and he knows how to handle a ro

An Australian angler recently boated the largest cobia ever caught—by far. The epic catch took place on February 8.

Eighteen-year-old Koby Duncan was fishing on a Jazz Charters boat for his buddy’s birthday celebration. According to Sport Fishing, he was jigging a soft plastic shad with a leadhead in 100 feet of water near Perth, Australia, when the big fish struck. A 30-minute fight ensued.

Captain Drew Clowes initially thought the fish was a stingray—an unwanted species—because of how it stuck to the bottom and even advised Duncan to break off. “It was such a heavy fish,” he told local radio station 6PR. “It was like four bags of concrete with a tail.”

Thankfully, Duncan didn’t listen. He patiently fought the fish with just 33-pound test line. When Clowes finally saw the cobia breach the surface toward the terminate of the fight, he was stunned to see its large head.

“It was exciting. I can’t lie,” he said. “I was like a little school kid at the time. It was not something you expect to see in Perth.”

Back at port, they weighed the massive cobia on a certified scale. It came in at 175.48 pounds and if confirmed, would interval the existing All Tackle IGFA world recor

A 175-plus-pound record cobia — the largest caught on rod and reel ever recorded — wouldn’t have made it to the boat if the angler had listened to his captain. IGFA recently approved the monster cobia as the all-tackle world record.

“It was a great catch by the young man,” said Capt. Drew Clowes, of Jazz Charters in Perth, Australia. “I must have told him to break it off five or six times thinking it was a big stingray sitting on the bottom.

“I’m glad he didn’t in the end,” Clowes chuckled. The fish, weighed on certified commercial lobster scales in front of a weighmaster from the Perth Game Fishing Club, was 79.6 kg — a little more than 175 pounds. It outweighs the current IGFA all-tackle world record by roughly 40 pounds.

The 18-year-old angler, Koby Duncan, a commercial angler by trade, was on a 21st-birthday charter for one of his buddies. He was working a 1.5-ounce Z-Man HeadlockZ jighead on the bottom with a 7-inch Z-Man Jerk ShadZ (Redbone color). They were jigging a reef pinnacle in 100 feet of water about 12 nautical miles off Perth on the south side of Rottnest Island. After the hookset, the big fish wrapped itself up in “cabbage weed” on the bottom, which is w

An incredible new record appears to have been set by an ecstatic group of Australian fishermen who yesterday reeled in a "mind-blowing" cobia fish weighing in at a whopping 80 kilograms.

Drew Clowes from boat operator Jazz Charters was fishing yesterday with young angler Koby Duncan — who made the catch — off the coast of Fremantle in Western Australia.

Drew said at first he thought Koby had caught a stingray, even encouraging him to "bust it off about five times". But, the pair have thanked their lucky stars Koby held on, now dethroning the previous record holder, also an Australian, who held the title for some 40 years.

In a now-viral social media video, the group of fishers can be heard screaming in excitement at reeling in the whopping fish. "This thing is out of control," one of the men said in the video

"It's as big Harley [another angler] — holy sh*t! That'll be a state record this thing."

Speaking to Yahoo News Autralia, Drew said the feat just missed out on breaking the world record due to a technicality, but it is has broken records in the state.

"It looks like it will be a state record at this stage," he